Anyone been to Green in the past week?
I didn't make it last weekend. Seems like we all had a hard time the week before.
Just curious, I hope to get over there this Sat.
Good luck to all,
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Anyone been to Green in the past week?
I didn't make it last weekend. Seems like we all had a hard time the week before.
Just curious, I hope to get over there this Sat.
Good luck to all,
rode down to holmes bend, water is below the second parking lot now, water is about 1/2 way up on the ticket building now.. Still going to be a while until it is back to normal. Good looking color though.....Heard a lake record bass was caught last week........
They are pulling hard. At the rate of -0.8 inches a day it will be another 16 days till it reaches summer pool. Thats if no more rain is added. Its going to be fun trying to find some of the old cover. But just like
last years flood there is going to be alot of new cover.
Is the holmes bend ramp open I was thinking about heading over that way tomorrow? Any info would be appreciated and is anyone catching any crappie?
Thanks in advance,
kyman
i went out early friday and caught several fish. kept 10 keepers. still have eggs I would have thought they have spawned out but not yet. fish still fairly deep. they are drawing lake down. should be in good shape this week.
fished Sunday morning and only managed 5 keepers and several short fish. Casting jigs
Was surprised how deep the fish were, I could only catch them between 20 and 25 feet deep.
Also found the high water and strong currents this spring have moved some of my cover, I could not find some of it.
I just got off work and am heading down to fish. I will post a report tonight when I get home.
Does any body remember what the water temp was this past weekend on either end of the lake? If i can get my boat back together by Thursday going to come down Fri and Sat if the rains from all this week
doesn't raise it to much.
Chucky,
I fished from Butler Creek to Holmes Bend. Water was 69 in the morning and warmed to 71 by the time I left Sunday afternoon.
Good luck
Colayn,
What was the shollowest that you tried? Normally on Green 69-71 is prime spawning in 2-8 ft on spawning banks. But they are dropping the water so you may need to back out a little more. I will make it down Friday
even if it kills me unless it floods again. That is the only reason i have not fished there this year is cause of the flood. Got to fish Green only once before the flood because we doing tourneys. Buy the time they were
over Green was almost 20ft above summer pool. Thanks for the water temps and good luck.
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Originally Posted by colayn
Chucky,
I tried as shallow as I could , threw jigs back into the bushes and tried fishing them at the edge. Hard to get very shallow, it was still about 10 ft over pool on Sunday. The water still running back into the trees and bushes a lot. I fished some of the banks I normally catch them on when they spawn but no luck.
Green has been a big puzzle for me this spring.
Good luck and let us know how you do
let me know if you think that a man would be able to catch some next week. do you think the lake will be back to summer pool by then. thanks a lot truckered
You can see the changes day by day in this report.Quote:
Originally Posted by truckered
Louisville District Daily Lake Report
I fished yesterday from about 10:30-3:00 and had a difficult time. I fished brush from 5' down to 24' and only caught 8 keepers from Butler Creek to the dam. The good news is that most were loaded with eggs. The lake was very hard to fish at this level and just getting your boat in the water from the ramp was difficult with a fiberglass boat. Water is at the top of the actual ramp at Lone Valley and I couldn't back in far enough there to launch at the shallow angle with my heavy fiberglass boat. Ramp One had the gate closed so I went all the way to Holmes Bend to put in and the water is still over the first parking lot but a man can get a boat in there.Almost all of my brush was either gone or moved but there is a lot more wood that wasn't there last month so it should be a fun summer trying to find stuff again.
I know we are hoping for a good spawn. Been wondering if eggs in the fish is good or bad sign. I really don't know. Just remember reading that
when conditions aren't good or the fish are stressed they will just absord the eggs back into their body as protein and not lay them.
Would like to hear from our biologist friends and see what they think.
I may try to get back over on Friday. Not sure I want to fight the boat traffic rest of the weekend.
Good luck to all,
chucky i may see you down there friday.
Plan on being there Friday as well. Anyone know what ramps are open right now?
Hey slabeye, did you all do any good? I didn't get my boat back together to go today. Going to finish it Saturday and maybe try a half day Monday. Would try Sunday but got a cookout.
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Originally Posted by slabeye
fished Friday and managed 26 keepers ( countless short fish) casting jigs. Fish were not as deep (15 ft) and relating to wood.
Found out a lot more of the cover I been fishing is gone. I am surprised there is enough current in Green to move it , even when they are pulling fairly hard.
Anybody goes out Sat or Sunday let me know how bad the rec boat traffic is. I want to try it again on Monday
i didnt get to go. maybe i will get to go in the next couple of days. I will let you know how i do.
colayn i am planing on going next week will post when i can next weekend if you are out look me up i have a black fishing barge with my crappie.com decal on the back i am staying at the state park on site 109 if you want to stop by. Thanks truckered.
truckered, I plan to go back Monday early, from daylight until around 1:00. Will you be there then?Quote:
Originally Posted by truckered
I have a blue/grey 99 Skeeter, with a Yamaha.
Likely will fish between Site 1 ramp and Butler Creek
Were you coming from ?
Was there any size to the keepers? Your brush moved during the flooding not the draw down. Last year when it flooded in May we would be fishing and see our brush piles move on the depth finder. And we would watch whole
trees come swiming down stream. On Sunday morning it is good till about 11:00-11:30 am till church lets out. Hopefully Monday morning should be good as well.
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Originally Posted by colayn
that makes more sense, there would be a higher volume of water moving on the intake than the draw down. Right now about 25% of what I normally fish is gone, can't find it anywhere with in about 50 feet.
Size was not great, nothing like last year. Had one 14 inch (let her go) 3 about 12 inch and the rest 9 to 10
What I cleaned had eggs (still wondering on that one) and the males had their colors on.
colayn I will be at the lake but I will be at the campground I don't think I will go out until tuesday to let the weekend bunch go home then we can settle down and catch some fish. thanks truckered.
we are at the state campground at lone vally.
truckered, how crowded is the lake ? I am coming over in the morning (Monday) early, will fish from 6:00 to about 1:00Quote:
Originally Posted by truckered
If you do get out look for a blue/grey Skeeter. I won't be to far from Butler Creek area
Good luck to you,
I'll be taking the in-laws out tuesday morning from Lone Valley and will be in the general area. Blue/silver Javelin and I almost always have an orange hat on.
chucky went yesterday from 12 to 6. we had 32 keepers all was from 9 to 12 inches. most was 10. but we didnt use minnows only trolled. probably could have got alot more with minnows. and most of the small ones still had eggs in them. only a couple of the keepers had eggs.
Hey slabeye, thats not bad for eaters. 5 keepers per hour. One every 12 minutes. What depth did you target? Shallow 8 or less, mid 8-15 or deeper? Eldons dad went Saturday and he finished with 40. Half of them were 12-15 and a couple went 16 inches. What was the water temp where you were at? I won't get to go till next weekend. I have one more thing to do to the boat. If it works out the way i have it plan i will be down Friday to Sunday.
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Originally Posted by slabeye
i fished from 6 foot to 25 foot. water was 70 to 73
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Originally Posted by chucky
wow a couple 16 " crappie out of green.....hmmmmmmmm.....
You know what, Rocketman ... some time ago, a couple of buddies & I fished Green River Lake and caught quite a few 1-2lb class Crappie. They're definitely in there, but the potential for numbers of them .... well, that's cyclic, it seems. Couple two or three years of dinks & just keepers, then BAM :eek: ... Slabs that nearly rival KY/Barkley fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocketman
KDFWR 2011 fishing forecast for Green River Lake was "good/excellent" for keeper sized fish. That was before all the flooding. And, while the flooding may have put the screws to any appreciable amount of 2011 spawning ... it also kept most anglers from getting any major numbers of the bigger fish. That could translate into some even greater numbers, and size, of the spawning fish of 2012 Hands Clapping
... cp :cool:
There is quite a few slabs in green you just got to fish it alot and find them. We caught several 16" or better last year. We won the CKCA open crappie tourney last fall and the smallest fish we had out of 7 was just under a lb. We won big fish as well with 1.89lb. If your ever by green river bait and grocery stop in and look at some of the pictures kenneth has of some 17" crappie caught. Crappiepappy is right as well. two floods in two years. Next years crappie should be big pigs. Good luck
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Originally Posted by Rocketman
Green is fun to fish and you catch alot of fish but the size definitely does not rival Kentucky lake.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiepappy
I know the slabs are there, I occasionally catch 14 and 15 inch fish. My problem is "occasionally."
I have good luck catching numbers of crappie year round on green, but lots of small fish. The warmer it gets the fewer big ones.
Can't seem to figure out the formula. Normally I am fishing pretty deep were I figure the large females would be most of the time, casting jigs.
The hotter the water the better the fishing at green....:D
Just remember, just because the water starts warming into the high temps that the crappie go deep. Green river lake has a thermal line at about 20 ft. in the summertime.
This is true.Quote:
Originally Posted by colayn
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Originally Posted by Rocketman
This is true. You can't compare the size of fish between the two. But if you took a part of kentucky lake(160,000 ac)to make it the size of Green river lake (8,210 ac) it would be darn close. Green needs a 10 inch size limit and a 20 limit per day as well. With as many crappie Green has if they did this, in about 3-5 years you would see the numbers of larger fish. But one could only hope for them to do that.:)
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Originally Posted by slabdaddy
I 2nd that Chucky, I would like to see 10 inch / 20 fish on all the local lakes. (green, nolin, rough) For me I will take quality over quanity anytime.
I know this will rub some folks wrong. Game warden told me some of the guys are still complaining about the 9 inch limit.
He also said they are getting a lot of request for a 10 inch size limit on the local lakes